Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to Mayor Katz, who fought a demagogic battle for the nomination (his opponent was "a radical, extremist, and advocate of black power") Hatcher ran a smooth, cool campaign, carrying his appeal to white as well as Negro neighborhoods, promising equal treatment to both. Though a fraction (4.5%) of the city's white voters did cast their ballots for him (as well as 10% of the Negroes), Hatcher indirectly owed his victory to the white-backlash that gave George Wallace the overwhelming support of Gary's white voters in the 1964 presidential primary. Openly appealing to anti-Negro...
...battle plan, according to a well-documented biography of Reno, Faint the Trumpet Sounds, Custer gave the major three companies to attack the south end of the camp, keeping five companies for himself, which Reno thought Custer would use to support him if he ran into heavy opposition. Reno's force of 112 officers and men had barely forded the Little Big Horn River when at least 500 Indians hit the front line and left flank. No relief force was in sight, and Reno ordered his men to dismount and fight on foot. Against odds as high...
...repressive tenor of the regime ran counter to the wishes of King Constantine, in whose name the officers had seized power (see box). After initially opposing the coup, the King decided to cooperate in an effort to steer the regime toward parliamentary rule, but his hopes hardly seemed justified. Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, the new Interior Minister and a member of the triumvirate that really rules the country, mused to foreign newsmen that in the new Greece there would be a strong executive branch and perhaps no need for a Parliament at all. "We believe Parliament will...
...mile Harvard's Jim Baker ran a quick 3:02 three-quarters to build up an almost insurmountable 70-yard lead over Yale's Steve Bittner. But 200 yards from the tape, Baker hit a series of brick walls and crept in third, behind Bittner and Harvard's Dick Howe...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, said yesterday that Harvard had no plans to raise rent, evict tenants, or otherwise change the operation of the building. Actual operation will be in the hands of the R.M. Bradley real estate firm -- the same firm which ran the building for the previous owners...